Andrew Phillips (historian)

Andrew Phillips is a historian from the ancient borough of Colchester in Essex in the East of England. He is a former lecturer in history at the Colchester Institute. He was for 40 years a contributor of historical columns to the Essex County Standard and he is the author of Colchester: A History (ISBN 1-86077-304-4), Ten Men and Colchester (ISBN 978-0900360657), Colchester 1940-1990: A Changing Town (ISBN 0-7509-1301-0), Steam and the Road to Glory: The Paxman Story (ISBN 978-0952936015), Colchester in the Great War (ISBN 978-1-47386-061-2), Ellisons 1764-2014 Solicitors of Colchester (ISBN 978-1-909277-10-6), 'Paxman of Colchester: The Rise and Fall of a British Industry 1918-2022' (ISBN 978-0-9529360-3-9). He has written many Journal articles and chapters in other books. He is the facilitator of the Colchester Recalled oral history project.